Coin carrying and dispensing device



' March 24, 1925.

1,530,906 F. NELSON COIN CARRYING AND DISPENSING DEVICE Filed July 19 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1 if Z} Z 7 JZ' W l 2 -54 54 I M i 1 I I i A. F. NELSON 1 com CARRYING AND msransme navrcz il y 19 1921 2 sheets-sne tf-zz I Patented Mar. 24, 1925.

ARTHUR F. NELSON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COIN CARRYING AND DISPENSING DEVICE.

Application filed July 19, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. NELSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at l'larrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin Carrying and Dispensing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel, simple and efiioient coin carrying and dispensing device for the use of persons receiving and handling money to enable them to quickly and accurately supply the proper change for the same.

The invention aims to provide a device which will be strong and durable and from which a coin or coins may be discharged or ejected under the control of a hand operated part and which may be readily set to eject ne,...twn..o1.:-niore.eoifi'fitstir up-era tion thereof, and it consists in the novel construction, comb'nation and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention,

Figure 1 is a front view of a coin carrying and dispensing devlce embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional detail of the coin jector and adjacent parts, on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a vertical section through the device, on line tt of Fig. 1, showing the co n ejector in the retracted position.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, partly in elevation, showing the coin ejector in the projected position.

Figure 6 is a horizontal section, on line 66 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, the general frame structure of the device comprises a set of vertically arranged tubes or casings 2, a. top plate 5 connecting the upper ends of the tubes and extending rearwardly there from, plates 7 connecting the central portions of the tubes 2, a housing 8 having a top wall 9 to which the plates 7 are connected. a bottom wall 10 to which the bottoms of the tubes 2 are connected, and a rear wall 11 connecting the top and bottom walls 9 and 10.

Serial No. 485,843.

Extending between the top of the housing 8 and the top plate 5 and connected thereto at the respective ends of the rearward portion of the device are rods 12, the upper ends of which are turned down to form hooks 13 adapted to engage the belt or other portion of the clothing of the user of the device to suspend and retain it in a con venient position in front of the user for the insertion or removal of coins, as will be hereinafter described.

The bottom wall 10 of the housing 8 extends beneath the tubes 2 and forms the floor portions thereof for supporting stacks of coins therein; and the tops of the tubes 2 are closed by a plate 14. which is pivoted, at 15, to the plate 5 and rests normally thereon and which is provided with slots 16 therein through which coins may be introduced to the tubes 2. As the coins are placed within the tubes 2, through the slots 16, they fall to the floor portions 10 there of or to other coins resting thereon and build up in stacks within the tubes. lVhen itis desired to remove all the coins from within the tubes 2 at one time, the plate 14 is moved on its pivot 15 from the upper ends of the tubes, and the entire device is inverted, permitting the coins to fall out by gravity. As herein illustrated, the two tubes at the left hand side in Fig. 1 are des'gned to receive nickels or live cent coins, the next tube to the right is designed to receive dimes or ten cent coins, and the tube at the extreme right is designed to receive quarters or twenty-five cent coins. hen the device is suspended at the front of the cloth ing of the user, as previously described, the tubes 2 containing the nickels will be the tubes nearest to the right hand of the user, the tube 2 containing the dimes next and the tube 2 containing the quarters next. As more niokels are handled than dimes, and more dimes than quarters, I have found that the arrangement of the tubes 2 as shown and described is very convenient and permits the coins to be handled witl the m'nimum amount of effort.

The lower portion of the forward wall of each tube 2 is provided with a discharge opening 17 through which the coins may be removed from the tubes; and each tube 2 is provided with a hand operated ejecting device for ejecting the coins through its opening when desired. As the ejecting de vices for the several tubes are alike in every particular, excepting size, a description of one will suflice for all. Therefore, I shall now describe the ejecting device for the dimes, which is illustrated in the detail views of the drawings.

Secured to the floor wall 10 is a casing 18 which extends downwardly therefrom beneath the coin tube 2. Within the casing 18 is a vertically adjustable member 19 comprising parallel, horizontal, side arms 20 connected by a depressed rearward portion 21, as shown in the drawings. The member 19 is supported by a screw 22 whose upper end is rigidly secured to the depressed portion 21 of the member 19. The screw 22 extends axially into a head 23 which is rotatably mounted in the bottom wall 10 of the casing 18 and extends through and below the same. The screw 22 is in threaded engagement with the head 23, and the head 23 is provided with top and bottom flanges which engage the top and bottom of the wall 10 and prevent axial movement of the head 23 relatively to the casing 18 and to the frame structure of the device, whereby the member 19 may be adjusted up and down within the casing 18 by turning the head 23 by hand, for a purpose hereinafter appearing.

The vertically adjustable member 19 car.- ries a coin ejector 24 provided with out 'wardly extending side flanges 25 which are slidably fitted to guideways formed in the opposing walls of the side arms 20 of the member 19. The ejector 24!: extends up wardly from the member 19 through a slot 26 in the floor wall 10 and above the same, and it is adapted to be moved forward and back, guided by the member 19, through the slot 26 and through a central opening in the rear of the tube 2 into and from the lower portion of the tube to eject coins therefrom through the front opening 17 in the tube.

The ejector 2+1 is connected to the upwardly extending arm 27 of a bell-crank lever 28 by a link 29 which is fitted to work within the hollow interiors of the ejector 2 1 and the depressed portion 21 of the member 19. The lever 28 is fulcrumed on a bracke. 30 secured upon the bottom wall of the easing 18 and its downwardly extending arm 31 is connected to the lower end of a link 32 which extends upwardly through the slot 26 laterally of the ejector 24. The upper end of the link 32 is connected to the downwardly and rearwardly extending arm 33 of a lever 34: which is fulcrumed, at on a bracket fixed in the housing 8, and which is provided with an upwardly and forward- 1y extending arm 36. The arm 36 extends forwardly of one of the plates or walls 7 through a slot therein, and its forward end 1s provided with a suitable plate or handle 37 adapted to be engaged and depressed by the thumb of the user of the device.

In the normal posit-ion of the parts, the lever arm 36 is elevated and the ejector 2st is retracted back of the tube 2, as shown in Fig. 1, and the connections between the lever 3% and ejector 24 are such that when the lever 34 is moved from the position shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown in Fig. 5 and back again, the ejector 2-1 will be moved from the position shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown in Fig. 5 and back again. The lever 3% is depressed against the action of a spring 38 secured to the back wall 11 of the housing 8 and having a free end bearing upon the lever arm 33. After the lever arm 36 has been depressed against the action of the spring 38, to move the parts to the position shown in Fig. 5, and released, the spring 38 automatically returns the parts to the normal position shown in Fig. l.

lVhen the ejector 2-1 is retracted, as shown in Fig. 1, its forward end is back of the stack of coins 40 in the tube 2, and when it is projected forwardly to the position shown in Fig. 5, it engages the coin or coins in its path and ejects them from the tube 2 through the discharge opening 17 therein. The number of coins ejected at each operation of the ejector 2+.- is controlled by the distance between the top of the ejector and the tap of the floor wall 10 supporting the stack of coins, and this distance may be readily increased or decreased. by turning the head 23 and thereby raising or lowering the member 19 and the ejector 24 carried thereby. As illustrated in the drawings, the ejector 24 is adjusted to a position in which its top is slightly below the top of the upper coin of the-lowermost pair offlcoins of the stack 10 so that two coins will be ejected .ateaclnopiagcma nd it will be understood that the ejector may be readily adjusted to a position to eject a single coin, or the maximum number of coins, controlled by the Vertical dimension of the discharge opening 17, six in the present instance, or any number of coins between a single coin and the maximum number of coins. hen the ejector carrying member 19 is adjusted to adjust the ejector to any one of its working positions, it is held therein by the threads of the screw 22 engaging the threads in the head 23 until the member 19 is again ad justed by turning the head 23.

To prevent the ejector 24 from accidentally ejecting any coins in the stack above the number of coins which the ejector is set to engage and eject, I provide a pair of spring plates or arms 11 which are secured to and extend from the rear wall 11 of the housing 8 and which embrace the tube 2. The arms 411 are curved around the forward portion of the tube 2 and extend between the floor wall 10 and the top of the discharge opening 17 and they are curved around the sides of the discharge opening 17 and form, in ef feet, a continuation of the wall of the tube 2, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 6. The free end walls of the arms 41 form yielding side walls for the discharge opening 17 and the distance between them is less than the diameter of the coins to prevent any coins from accidentally falling from within the tube 2 when it is tilted and to act against the rearward portions of the coins after they have been moved forward by the ejector 2a and to shoot them forwardly into the hand of the person using the device, as will be hereinafter explained. The walls formed by the free ends of the arms 41 extend upwardly and toward each other from the horizontal plane of the floor wall 10 so that all coins of the stack below the top of the discharge opening 17 and above the top of the uppermost coin being engaged and moved forwardly by the ejector 24 will be thereby prevented from being discharged from the tube 2.

The forward portion of the fioor wall 10 is inclined downwardly and overlaps and is secured to a forwardlyextending, downwardly inclined wall 42 which forms a continuation of the floor wall 10 and which is bent back to form a ledge a3 and which terminates in a vertical wall 44 secured to the casings 18 beneath the tubes 2.

When the user of the device desires a coin or coins from a tube 2 he places the tips of the fingers of one of his hands beneath the ledge 43 with the palm of the hand in front of the tube, and he then uses the thumb of the same hand to depress the lever arm 36 of the tube; and, it will be understood that this operation ejects the desired number of coins from the tube 2 and into the hand of the user of the device, in accordance with the position of adjustment of the member 19 carrying the ejector 24. When the user desires to increase or decrease the number of coins ejected from a tube 2 at each operation of its lever arm 36, it is merely necessary to turn the head 23 below the tube 2 either forward or backward, in accordance with the adjustment desired, until the ejector 2 1- occupies the proper position to eject the desired number of coins.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in, the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, a guiding member supporting the ejector, a bell-crank lever fulcrumed on the structure below the ejector and having an arm extending upwardly and rearwardly from its fulcrum and an arm extending downwardly and rearwardly from its fulcrum, a link extending beneath the ejector and connecting the ejector and the upper arm of the lever, a hand operated lever fulcrumed on the structure above the ejector and having an arm extending forwardly from its fulcrum and an arm extending rearwardly from its ful crum, and a link connecting the lower arm of the first named lever and the rearward arm of the hand operated lever.

2. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said openin a guiding member supporting the ejector, a lever fulcrumed on the structure, and a link connecting the ejector and the lever, said guiding member being vertically adjust-able on said structure to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation, and said link permitting the vertical adjustment of said guiding means and said ejector relatively to said lever.

3. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a. floor portion for supporting the coins therein, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, a guiding member supporting the ejector, a lever fulcrumed on the structure below the ejector and having an arm extending upwardly from its fulcrum, and a link extending rearwardly from said arm and connecting it and the ejector, said guiding mem her being vertically adjustable on said structure tovary the distance between the top of the ejector and the lioor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation, and said link permitting the vertical adjustmentof said guiding means and said ejector relatively to said lever.

at. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, a guiding member supporting the ejector, a bell-erank lever fulcrumed on the structure below the ejector and having an arm extending upwardly from its fulcrum and an arm extending downwardly from its fulcrum, a link extending rearwardly from the upper arm of said lever and connecting it and the ejector, a hand operated lever fulcrumed on the structure above the ejector and having an arm extending forwardly from its fulcrum and an arm extending rearwardly from its fulcrum, and a link connecting the lower arm of the first named lever and the rearward arm of the hand operated lever, said guiding member being vertically ad justable on said structure to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation, and said first named link permitting the vertical adjustment of said guiding means and said ejector relatively to said levers.

5. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins there-in, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, a guiding member supporting the ejector, a lever fulcrumed on the structure, a link connecting the ejector and the lever, a head rotatably mounted in said structure, and a screw connecting said head and said guiding means and adapted when the head is turned to raise and lower the guiding means to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation.

6. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said openin aguiding member supporting the ejector, a lever fulcrumed on the structure, a link connecting the ejector and the lever, a head rotatably mounted in said structure and be ing prevented from moving axially therein, and a screw secured to and supporting said member and being in threaded engagement with said head and adapted when the head is turned to raise and lower the member to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation.

7. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, said opening being formed between two walls one of which is yielding relatively to the other to permit the separation thereof when a coin or coins are forcibly ejected through said opening, said walls extending upwardly and toward each other from the horizontal plane of the floor portion and the distance between them being less than the diameter of the coins to be ejected to prevent the accidental discharge of coins above those being forcibly ejected, and means adapted to be operated to forcibly eject coins through said opening.

8. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, said opening being formed by the free end walls of two spring arms adapted to yield and permit the separation thereof when a coin or coins are forcibly ejected through said opening, said walls extending upwardly and toward each other from the horizontal plane of the floor portion and the distance between them being less than the diameter of the coins to be ejected to pre vent the accidental discharge of coins above those being forcibly ejected, and means adapted to be operated to forcibly eject coins through said opening.

9. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold astack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, said opening being formed between two walls one of which is yielding relatively to the other to permit the separation thereof when a coin or coins are forcibly ejected through said opening, said walls extending upwardly and toward each other from the horizontal plane of the fioor portion and the distance between them being less than the diameter of the coins to be ejected to prevent the accidental discharge of coins above those being forcibly ejected, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, and means to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation.

10. In a coin dispenser, a frame structure having a casing adapted to receive and hold a stack of coins and having a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof and a floor portion for supporting the coins therein, said opening being formed by the free end walls of two spring arms adapted to yield and permit the separation thereof when a coin or coins are forcibly ejected through said opening, said walls extending upwardly and toward each other from the horizontal plane of the floor portion and the distance between them being less than the diameter of the coins to be ejected to prevent the accidental discharge of coins above those being forcibly ejected, an ejector movable into and from the casing and adapted to be operated to eject coins therefrom through said opening, and means to vary the distance between the top of the ejector and the floor portion to Vary the number of coins engaged and ejected during each ejecting operation.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature hereto.

ARTHUR F. NELSON. 

